[network] Event: Long & Lost [NIGHT 217]

[snowblindmods]

it's been so long between the words we spoke
will you be there up on the shore, I hope

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Comments

[phaseshifter]

I have a foil-stamped one with "dad issues" on it. Tell me that wouldn't look neat in your collector's album.

[blueteamproblems]

You're assuming I don't already have that one.

I mean, I don't, since I don't have a dad. But I totally could. It's not like you'd know.

[phaseshifter]

You're forgetting how shamefully bad you are at lying. All I'd have to do would be ask.

[blueteamproblems]

...I could just not answer.

[phaseshifter]

Yes, but then I'd call you a pissbaby again. I probably will anyway. It suits you.

[blueteamproblems]

Wow. Wowowowowowowow.

Wow.

[phaseshifter]

You're not denying it, I see.

[blueteamproblems]

YEAH WELL I see you're not denying that you're a shitty little cockbite, either!

[phaseshifter]

SHHHHH!

[ JACK WILL HEAR. SECRET DUMPY JACK. WHO IS A SECRET. ]

Do you want everyone to know?

[blueteamproblems]

Maybe.

[this is stupid]

[phaseshifter]

Definitely a pissbaby.

[ SO FOND THO ]

[blueteamproblems]

So's your face.

[ALL OF THE PISSKID SULKING]

[phaseshifter]

That doesn't even make sense! Like... your face.

[ Except that isn't Church's face according to what he said before, is it? UH. ]

[blueteamproblems]

[Yeah it sure isn't his face. That's kind of a bummer.]

You know, I'm not even sure if I have an actual face of my own.

[phaseshifter]

Hmmm. Does that bug you? I'm assuming not much, since you're able to talk about it.

[blueteamproblems]

Not really, I guess. It's mostly just weird.

[As long as he doesn't think about things like the fact that his memories are all messed up and make it feel like the face he's wearing now is the one he's always had. Which makes no sense since his memories were never his, and neither was this face.]

[phaseshifter]

Yeah, I can imagine. A lot of people get... really hung up on faces.

[ mentioning no nameJACK JACK HANDSOME DIDDLY DARN JACKO ]

Are you sure it was ever someone else's face at all? Maybe it's something generated from your own mental image of yourself, or something.

[blueteamproblems]

Uh, I'm pretty sure you can't just generate human bodies out of nowhere. Like, cloning is a thing, but you're still copying someone, right?

[phaseshifter]

Well - you'd know better about what technology can do where you come from. No humanlike androids like Winter or Andromeda for you?

[blueteamproblems]

Nope. There's robots, but they're pretty obviously not human. And this body's definitely not an android.

[phaseshifter]

Ah.

[ So it's a Rhys-Jack situation, except the takeover was unwilling on both ends? Maybe? It's only that last part that keeps this from being completely revolting. UrgHGHGghrr. ]

There has to be some kind of tech in your current body, though, right? For you to be in it in the first place? A chip or a drive or something, Iunno.

[blueteamproblems]

[hahaha now you know one of the things issues church has been dealing with aren't you happy]

Yeah, uh. There's a chip. It's this implant thing on the neck.

[phaseshifter]

How common are those, where you're from? Would there be some kind of registry for people who have them? If so, you may be able to look up who it is someday. Try cross-referencing it with a list of people in comas or something, if possible. That's what I'd do, anyway.

[ Because Body Donor Dude has to be a coma patient or this would be too awful, kthx ]

[blueteamproblems]

I dunno. I think Project Freelancer were the only people doing shit like that, and it's not likely they'd have records I could get my hands on.

[phaseshifter]

That sounds like quitter talk to me! Their security can't be so good that someone like you can't hack into it, surely.

[ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ]